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  • 1
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    Cham : Springer International Publishing | Cham : Imprint: Springer
    Keywords: Earth sciences. ; Philosophy and science. ; Ecology .
    Description / Table of Contents: Prologue: From Homo Prometheus to Terra Incognita -- Greenhouse gases and mass extinction of species -- The K-T impact-triggered hyperthermal event -- The Paleocene-Eocene boundary Thermal Maximum -- Cenozoic climates -- Human origins -- Fire and human intelligence -- The Gods and the death cult -- The war against the forests -- Fatal energies -- The Anthropocene hyperthermal Collapse of the Earth's life support systems -- The Fatal species -- An Epilogue.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource(XI, 134 p. 75 illus., 70 illus. in color.)
    Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
    ISBN: 9783030547349
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    Dordrecht :Springer Netherlands,
    Keywords: Human ecology. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (177 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789400773325
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences Series
    DDC: 551.509
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Part I Early Atmospheres -- 1 Early Atmosphere-Ocean-Biosphere Systems -- Abstract -- References -- 2 Palaeozoic and Mesozoic Atmospheres -- Abstract -- References -- 3 Cenozoic Atmospheres and Early Hominins -- Abstract -- References -- Part II The Great Mass Extinctions of Species -- 4 Mass Extinction of Species -- Abstract -- 4.1…Acraman Impact and Acritarchs Radiation -- 4.2…Late Ordovician Mass Extinction -- 4.3…Late and End-Devonian Mass Extinctions -- 4.4…Late Permian and Permian--Triassic Mass Extinctions -- 4.5…End-Triassic Mass Extinction -- 4.6…Jurassic-Cretaceous Climate Anomalies -- 4.7…K--T (Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary) Mass Extinction -- 4.8…Paleocene-Eocene Extinction -- 4.9…The End-Eocene Freeze -- 4.10…Carbon and Oxygen Isotopes and Mass Extinctions -- References -- Part III Homo's Fire Blueprint -- 5 A Flammable Biosphere -- Abstract -- References -- 6 A Fire Species -- Abstract -- References -- 7 Climate and Holocene Civilizations -- Abstract -- References -- Part IV The Anthropocene Event Horizon -- 8 Homo sapiens' War Against Nature -- Abstract -- 8.1…Neolithic Burning and Early Global Warming -- 8.2…The Great Carbon Oxidation Event -- 8.3…The Sixth Mass Extinction of Species -- References -- 9 An Uncharted Climate Territory -- Abstract -- References -- 10 Homo Prometheus -- Abstract -- References -- Epilogue The 'Life Force' -- Appendices -- About the Author -- References -- Index.
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  • 3
    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Earth Sciences ; Economic geology ; Structural geology ; Planetology ; Physical geography ; Earth sciences ; Economic geology ; Structural geology ; Planetology ; Physical geography ; Australien ; Pilbara-Komplex ; Impakt ; Lagerstättenbildung ; Impaktstruktur ; Erzlagerstätte ; Pilbara ; Kraton ; Meteorit ; Meteoritenkrater ; Metallogenese ; Hydrothermale Lagerstätte ; Meteoritenkrater ; Sulfidlagerstätte ; Ringstruktur ; Geologie ; Lagerstättenkunde ; Metasomatose
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Asteroid Impacts in Time and Space -- 3. Criteria for Identification of Asteroid Impact Events -- 4. Asteroid Impacts in Time -- 5. Australian Asteroid Impacts -- 6. Asteroid Impacts and Ore Genesis -- 7. Asteroid and Crustal Evolution.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 215 p. 130 illus., 109 illus. in color, online resource)
    ISBN: 9783319745459
    Series Statement: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences 14
    Language: English
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Earth Sciences ; Geobiology ; Atmospheric sciences ; Environmental sciences ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Earth sciences ; Geobiology ; Atmospheric sciences ; Environmental sciences ; Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Anthropozän ; Feuer ; Brand ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Klima ; Entwicklungsbiologie ; Anthropozän ; Feuer ; Brand ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Klima ; Entwicklungsbiologie ; Historische Geologie ; Event ; Massensterben ; Menschheit ; Atmosphäre ; Entstehung ; Änderung ; Anthropogener Einfluss ; Artensterben ; Anthropozän ; Umweltbelastung ; Umweltveränderung ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung
    Description / Table of Contents: The book outlines principal milestones in the evolution of the atmosphere, oceans and biosphere during the last 4 million years in relation with the evolution from primates to the genus Homo – which uniquely mastered the ignition and transfer of fire. The advent of land plants since about 420 million years ago ensued in flammable carbon-rich biosphere interfaced with an oxygen-rich atmosphere. Born on a flammable Earth surface, under increasingly unstable climates descending from the warmer Pliocene into the deepest ice ages of the Pleistocene, human survival depended on both—biological adaptations and cultural evolution, mastering fire as a necessity. This allowed the genus to increase entropy in nature by orders of magnitude. Gathered around camp fires during long nights for hundreds of thousandth of years, captivated by the flickering life-like dance of the flames, humans developed imagination, insights, cravings, fears, premonitions of death and thereby aspiration for immortality, omniscience, omnipotence and the concept of god. Inherent in pantheism was the reverence of the Earth, its rocks and its living creatures, contrasted by the subsequent rise of monotheistic sky-god creeds which regard Earth as but a corridor to heaven. Once the climate stabilized in the early Holocene, since about ~7000 years-ago production of excess food by Neolithic civilization along the Great River Valleys has allowed human imagination and dreams to express themselves through the construction of monuments to immortality. Further to burning large part of the forests, the discovery of combustion and exhumation of carbon from the Earth’s hundreds of millions of years-old fossil biospheres set the stage for an anthropogenic oxidation event, affecting an abrupt shift in state of the atmosphere-ocean-cryosphere system. The consequent ongoing extinction equals the past five great mass extinctions of species—constituting a geological event horizon in the history of planet Earth.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVIII, 227 p. 152 illus., 126 illus. in color, online resource)
    ISBN: 9783319225128
    Series Statement: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences 10
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    Language: English
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  • 5
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Climatic changes-Effect of human beings on. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (133 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783030754686
    DDC: 363.73874
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble: The killing of Gaia -- Contents -- 1 Rare Earth -- 2 Ancient Fires -- 3 Swarm Intelligence -- 4 Amazons and Misogynous Apes -- 5 River Empires and Divine Rulers -- 6 Human Sacrifice -- 7 On Slavery and Genocide -- 8 From Space Lunacy to Mad Max's Fury Road -- TV or not To Be -- 9 The Triumph of the Absurd -- 10 Burning the Lungs of Earth -- 11 I Am Shiva -- 12 The Swan Song -- 13 Eli's Lost World -- 13.1 King Brown -- 13.2 The Queen Ant -- 13.3 The Dingo -- Bibliography -- Peer Review Papers and Books -- Index.
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  • 6
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Life. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (178 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783030106034
    DDC: 128
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Contributed Books List -- Introduction: The Origin of Intelligence -- References -- 1 The Building Blocks of Intelligence -- 1.1 From a Singularity to a Bio-friendly Universe -- 1.2 The Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 1.3 The Living Enigma -- 1.4 Panspermia and Transpermia -- 1.5 Evolution: Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace -- References -- 2 Milestones in Early Evolution -- 2.1 Early Atmospheres and Oceans -- 2.1.1 Early Records of Life -- 2.1.2 Mass Extinction of Species -- References -- 3 From the Genetic Code to Collective Brains -- 3.1 From Amino Acids to Nucleic Acids -- 3.2 The Intelligent Cell -- 3.3 The Phylogenetic Scheme -- 3.4 Marine and Hydrothermal Communities -- 3.5 Multicellular and Colonial Life -- 3.6 Evolution of the Eye -- References -- 4 Intelligent Communities -- 4.1 Arthropod Civilizations -- 4.2 The World of Birds -- 4.3 Fire and the Human Mind -- References -- 5 Directional Thought and Evolution -- 5.1 The Anthropic Principle -- 5.2 Swarm Intelligence and Collective Minds -- 5.3 Evolution of the Brain -- 5.4 The Directional Thought Process -- References -- 6 Epilogue-From Stars to Brains -- References -- Index.
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  • 7
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Archaeology. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (241 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783319225128
    Series Statement: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Series ; v.10
    DDC: 304.2
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Early Earth Systems -- 1.1 Archaean and Proterozoic Atmospheres -- 1.2 Early Biospheres -- 1.3 Greenhouse States and Glaciations -- Chapter 2: Phanerozoic Life and Mass Extinctions of Species -- 2.1 Acraman Impact and Acritarchs Radiation -- 2.2 Cambrian and Late Ordovician Mass Extinction -- 2.3 Late and End-Devonian Mass Extinctions -- 2.4 Late Permian and Permian-Triassic Mass Extinctions -- 2.5 End-Triassic Mass Extinction -- 2.6 Jurassic-Cretaceous Extinction -- 2.7 K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary) Mass Extinction -- 2.8 Paleocene-Eocene Extinction -- 2.9 The End-Eocene Freeze -- Chapter 3: Cenozoic Biological Evolution (by Colin Groves) -- 3.1 The Evolution of Mammals -- 3.2 From Primates to Humans -- 3.3 From Genetic Evolution to Cultural Evolution -- Chapter 4: Fire and the Biosphere -- 4.1 An Incendiary Biosphere -- 4.2 The Deep-Time History of Fire -- 4.3 Fire and Pre-historic Human Evolution -- 4.4 Neolithic Burning and Early Civilizations -- Chapter 5: The Anthropocene -- 5.1 The Modern Atmosphere -- 5.2 Neolithic Burning and Early Global Warming -- 5.3 The Great Carbon Oxidation Event -- 5.4 The Sixth Mass Extinction of Species -- 5.5 The Faustian Bargain -- 5.6 The Post-anthropocene World -- Chapter 6: Rare Earth -- Chapter 7: Prometheus: An Epilogue -- References -- About the Book and the Authors -- Index.
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  • 8
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Archaean. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (246 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783319079080
    Series Statement: Modern Approaches in Solid Earth Sciences Series ; v.9
    DDC: 551.712
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Vestiges of a Beginning -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Moon and the Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) -- Chapter 2: Hadean and Early Archaean High Grade Metamorphic Terrains -- 2.1 Mount Narryer > -- 4.0 Ga Detrital Zircons -- 2.2 Acasta Gneiss and Hadean Zircons -- 2.3 Northeastern Superior Province Gneisses -- 2.4 Wyoming Gneisses -- 2.5 Itsaq Gneisses and Supracrustals, Southwest Greenland -- 2.6 Siberian Gneisses -- 2.7 North China Craton -- 2.8 Antarctic Gneisses -- Chapter 3: Early Archaean Mafic-Ultramafic Crustal Relics -- Chapter 4: The Tonalite-Trondhjemite-Granodiorite (TTG) Suite and Archaean Island Continents -- 4.1 Archaean Batholiths -- 4.2 Vertical Crustal Zonation -- Chapter 5: Isotopic Temporal Trends of Early Crustal Evolution -- 5.1 U-Th-Pb Isotopes -- 5.2 Rb-Sr Isotopes -- 5.3 The Lu-Hf System -- 5.4 The Sm-Nd System -- 5.5 The Re-Os System -- Chapter 6: Geochemical Trends of Archaean Magmatism -- 6.1 Mafic and Ultramafic Volcanics -- 6.2 Felsic Igneous Rocks -- Chapter 7: Pre-3.2 Ga Evolution and Asteroid Impacts of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa -- 7.1 The Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eastern Kaapvaal Craton -- 7.1.1 Onverwacht Group -- 7.2 Evolution of the Zimbabwe Craton -- 7.3 Pre-3.2 Ga Asteroid Impact Units of the Kaapvaal Craton -- Chapter 8: Evolution and Pre-3.2 Ga Asteroid Impact Clusters: Pilbara Craton, Western Australia -- 8.1 Crustal Evolution -- 8.2 ~Pre-3.2 Ga Impact Fallout Units in the Pilbara Craton -- 8.3 ~3.24-3.227 Ga Impact-Correlated Units -- Chapter 9: Post-3.2 Ga Granite-Greenstone Systems -- 9.1 Evolution of the Yilgarn Craton -- 9.2 Evolution of South Indian Granite-Greenstone Terrains -- 9.3 Accretion of Superior Province Terrains -- 9.4 Archaean Fennoscandian/Baltic Terrains -- Chapter 10: Post-3.2 Ga Basins and Asteroid Impact Units. , 10.1 Late Archaean Griqualand West Basin -- 10.2 Late Archaean Fortescue and Hamersley Basins Impact Units -- 10.2.1 ~2.63 Ga Jeerinah Impact Layer and the Roy Hill and Carawine Dolomite Impact/Tsunami Megabreccia -- 10.2.2 ~2.57 Ga Paraburdoo Impact Spherule Unit (PSL) -- 10.2.3 ~2.56 Ga Spherule Marker Bed (SMB) -- 10.2.4 ~2.48 Ga Impact, Dales Gorge (DGS4) -- 10.2.5 Estimates of Asteroid Size and Compositions -- 10.3 Impact Fallout Units and Banded Iron Formations -- 10.4 Inter-continental Correlation of Impact Units -- Chapter 11: The Early Atmosphere and Archaean Life -- 11.1 Archaean Carbon-Oxygen-Sulphur Cycles and the Early Atmosphere -- 11.2 Archaean Life -- Chapter 12: Uniformitarian Theories and Catastrophic Events Through Time -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: U-Pb Zircon Ages (Except Where Specified Otherwise) from the Ancient Gneiss Complex, Swaziland (AGC) and Barberton Greenstone Belt, Eastern Transvaal (BGB) (Compiled After Poujol 2007) -- Appendix 2: Key Supracrustal and Plutonic Units and Isotopic Ages, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia -- About the Author -- References -- Index.
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing AG,
    Keywords: Climatic changes-Effect of human beings on. ; Human beings-Effect of climate on. ; Climatology-Philosophy. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (142 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9783030547349
    DDC: 363.73874
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Introduction: From Homo Prometheus to Terra Incognita -- 2 Greenhouse Gases and Mass Extinctions -- 2.1 The K-T Impact-Triggered Hyperthermal Event -- 2.2 The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) -- 2.3 Cenozoic Climates -- 3 Human Origins (Abbreviated from Groves 2016) -- 4 Fire and Human Intelligence -- 5 The Age of Consequences -- 5.1 The Anthropocoene Hyperthermal -- 5.2 Accelerated Melting of the Ice Sheets -- 5.3 Migration of Climate Zones -- 5.4 Climate Extremes -- 5.5 An Uncharted Climate Territory -- 6 Inferno -- 7 The Gathering Storm -- 8 The Critical Century -- 9 An Orwellian Climate as Rome Burns -- 10 Space Lunacy -- 11 Notes from a Catastrophe -- 12 A Eulogy -- References -- Index.
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  • 10
    Keywords: Earth (Planet) -- Surface. ; Electronic books.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: 1 online resource (151 pages)
    Edition: 1st ed.
    ISBN: 9789400763289
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences Series
    DDC: 551.7
    Language: English
    Note: Intro -- The Asteroid Impact Connection of Planetary Evolution -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 A Paradigm Shift in Earth Science -- References -- 2 Encounters in Space -- References -- 3 Lunar Impacts and the Late Heavy Bombardment in the Earth-Moon System -- References -- 4 Impact and Cratering Dynamics -- References -- 5 Identification of Impact Structures -- 5.1 Buried Impact Structures -- 5.2 Geophysical Criteria -- 5.3 Microstructural Criteria for Shock Metamorphism -- References -- 6 Impact Ejecta and Fallout Units -- References -- 7 Extraterrestrial Geochemical, Isotopic and Mineralogical Signatures -- 7.1 Geochemical Signatures -- 7.2 Isotopic Signatures -- 7.3 Mineralogical Signatures -- References -- 8 Precambrian Asteroid Impacts -- 8.1 Archaean Impact EjectaFallout Units -- 8.1.1 Early-Mid Archaean (~3.48-3.34 Ga) Impacts -- 8.1.2 A Mid-Archaean (~3.26-3.24 Ga) Impact Cluster and Related Tectonic and Igneous Events -- 8.1.3 The Late Archaean (~2.63-2.48 Ga) Impact Cluster -- 8.1.3.1 The 2.63 Ga Jeerinah Impact Layer and Carawine mega-breccia -- 8.1.3.2 The ~2.57-2.56 Ga Impact Cluster -- 8.1.3.3 The ~2.48 Ga Dales Gorge Impact -- 8.1.4 Impact-Triggered Tsunami Events -- 8.1.5 Impact Ejecta Units and Iron-Rich Sediments -- References -- 9 Large (> -- 100 km Diameter) Impact Structures -- 9.1 Maniitsoq, Southwest Greenland (~2.975 Ga) -- 9.2 Vredefort, Free State, South Africa (2.023 Ga) -- 9.3 Sudbury Impact Structure, Ontario, Canada (~1.85 Ga) -- 9.4 Chicxulub, Yucatan, and the KT Impact Boundary (65 Ma) -- References -- 10 Asteroid Impact Clusters and Isotopic Age Peaks -- References -- 11 Australian Large Impact Structures (> -- 20 km Diameter) -- 11.1 Yarrabubba, Western Australia (D < -- 70 km -- < -- 2.65 Ga) -- 11.2 Acraman, South Australia (~580 Ma -- D = 30-90 km) and Bunyeroo ejecta. , 11.3 Shoemaker, Western Australia (> -- 568 Ma -- D = 29-31 km) -- 11.4 Gnargoo, Western Australia (post-early Permian -- D = 75 km) -- 11.5 Woodleigh, Western Australia (~359 Ma -- D = 120 km) -- 11.6 Warburton Probable Impact Structure, North-East South Australia -- 11.7 Gosses Bluff, Northern Territory (142 Ma -- D = 24 km) -- 11.8 Tookoonooka (~125 Ma -- D = 55-65 km) and Talundilly (D = 84 km -- ~125 Ma) Twin Impact Structures, Eromanga Basin, Queensland -- 11.9 Mount Ashmore Probable Impact Structure, Timor Sea -- References -- 12 Impacts and Mass Extinctions -- References -- 13 Uniformitarian Models and the Role of Asteroid Impacts in Earth Evolution -- References -- 14 The Current Danger -- Reference -- About the Author -- Index.
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